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Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, And Your Organization To A Positive Future ebooks Download
Surely you’ve experienced something like this: you buy a red car, and suddenly red cars appear everywhere. Why? Because you’re focusing on red cars—and you get more of whatever you focus on. But much of the time, consciously and unconsciously, we dwell on what we don’t want, and that’s what we get. Drawing on the latest scientific research, Laura Goodrich shows you how to stop fixating on negatives and rewire your brain to focus on positive outcomes. Unique and practical exercises—including a free online toolkit—and dozens of enlightening real-life stories help you identify what you truly want so that it drives everything you do. And Goodrich shows how Seeing Red Cars can build organizational cultures in which employees are playing to their passions and strengths, focusing on what they want, and achieving breakthrough results. 
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (February 7, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1605097276
ISBN-13: 978-1605097275
Product Dimensions:  5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,565,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #62 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Work Life Balance   #4894 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Motivation & Self-Improvement
Laura Goodrich has written a small book with a big message (150 pages).I'm not a fan of simplistic, "positive thinking," the approach that if you dream it you'll do it. The world is filled with dreamers that don't achieve. However, I believe, "Seeing Red Cars," provides rubber-hits-the-road strategies for creating AND achieving a vision driven life, team, and organization.How to drive into a positive future?Focus on what you want. It's likely you spend most of your life reacting rather than acting. Additionally, research shows that 70% of your thoughts are about what you don't want and what you'd like to avoid.Can you, in this moment, name what you want? You can't get there if you can't name it. "Clarity is the most important motivator and predictor of future success. You get more of what you focus on."Focus on what you can control. Life's frustrations center on things you can't control. Trying to control them drains you. You'll go farther by playing to your strengths and controlling what you can control.Here's a brief sampling of principles that Laura offers.Six strategies that help you get there:1. Jump into social media. Twitter is the most powerful tool available for establishing new connections.2. Follow your intuition. When was the last time you did some soul-searching?3. Engage in many conversations. One significant conversation can change your life.4. Utilize supporters. Let others help.5, Utilize doubters. Prove the: can't, don't, and won't people wrong.6. Deal effectively with weaknesses by linking with the strengths of others.If you can't state what you want, describe your plan, and define a time-line for getting there, "Seeing Red Cars," is for you.Highly RecommendedDan RockwellLeadership Freak
Seeing Red Cars is all about seeing what you want in life, not what you don't want. Unfortunately, most of us have been trained to be overly cautious and wary of what might go wrong or not work out for us. As a consequence, we spend most of our time thinking about what we don't want, what we want to avoid, and what we don't like about the situations we find ourselves in. In Seeing Red Cars, author Laura Goodrich explains the importance of focusing, instead, on what we do want, using our "wants" to keep us motivated toward our goals.With a heavy focus on using this Seeing Red Cars mindset (the idea that if you start thinking about red cars, you will automatically see more red cars...your mind being drawn toward what you think about) in the business world, Goodrich still offers plenty of anecdotal examples of how this can be used in real life.There are many worksheets included in the book to develop your own bucket list of "wants" as well as trackable sheets to help you decide what to do to reach those goals and keep you on target. The is emphasis is on balance in all areas of life, because dissatisfaction in any area of life will affect other areas. Goodrich offers ways to find the imbalances and how to focus more on what brings joy and happiness. Be prepared to do some soul-searching about what is important in your life and how to get it. This is a fabulous book for any organization, team, or workplace looking to change focus and work toward more employee satisfaction, creativity, and cooperation.
I have the opportunity to choose books for our company to hand out to employees so that we can read and have a starting point for conversations. I read some business book reviews and this book really stood out to me. I ordered the book and read it completely and will be very comfortable handing it out to all of our employees. The toolkit that you get to download really helped to bring it all together. I will use this book to continue my professional development as well.
In both my Fortune 100 corporate executive and entrepreneurial careers, I've seen many individuals fritter away days, weeks, months and even years waiting for something to happen, as they were unclear on where they wanted to go and what they wanted to do with their personal and professional lives.David Mahoney, executive, writes, "There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear." Laura Goodrich's Seeing Red Cars provides a practical toolkit and roadmap for bridging the gulf between wishing and doing. If you have the motivation to shift gears in your life and focus on what's important to you and/or your organization, Seeing Red Cars and its website toolkit provide a multitude of easy-to-understand and easy-to-use tools to do so.Some authors write about identifying one's purpose in life. Laura calls this step crafting personal "I wants." Whatever the nomenclature, this identification exercise is foundational to life and business mastery. Laura offers visual, auditory and tactile triggers, tips and techniques for keeping one's focus clearly in view."Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there," cautions Will Rogers. Seeing Red Cars can serve as one's personal GPS to point the way in getting - and staying - focused on what you want to do with your life.Jane PerdueCEO, Braithwaite Innovation Group and Get Your BIG On!
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